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Now I understand why Americans consider spring to start a lot later than we do, virtually nowhere in Europe below about 60N would get that much snow and cold this late If it's any consolation, today is 61F and sunny here, not there yet but probably the hottest day of the year so far for the third day in a row
Whoa Ben, you are making a pretty big genaralization there. Where I live Spring is def March, albeit not a real warm and sunny month. Americans live in a huge country. PA is roughly the same size as England. There are many areas of this country right now with average daily highs that would be a typical summer day in England.
The average high in London is now roughly 55. Our avg high is now 54, and on April 15th ours is 62 and yours is around 58. After that we leave you in the dust until November.
London had a warm January and Feb, we really didn't start going slightly above normal till mid Feb. This Feb in London was over 4 degrees above normal and I recall you didn't have a bad Jan. Our December and Jan were brutal. I've been to London in March and it felt no diff to here, maybe even colder with the low sun angle.
As you guys have so aptly pointed out, never use extreme weather as an indicator. Well, Spain got snow in March last year. Take a look: Snow in Barcelona
Whoa Ben, you are making a pretty big genaralization there. Where I live Spring is def March, albeit not a real warm and sunny month. Americans live in a huge country. PA is roughly the same size as England. There are many areas of this country right now with average daily highs that would be a typical summer day in England.
The average high in London is now roughly 55. Our avg high is now 54, and on April 15th ours is 62 and yours is around 58. After that we leave you in the dust until November.
London had a warm January and Feb, we really didn't start going slightly above normal till mid Feb. This Feb in London was over 4 degrees above normal and I recall you didn't have a bad Jan. Our December and Jan were brutal. I've been to London in March and it felt no diff to here, maybe even colder with the low sun angle.
As you guys have so aptly pointed out, never use extreme weather as an indicator. Well, Spain got snow in March last year. Take a look: Snow in Barcelona
I suppose it is a generalisation but by 'America' what I really meant was New York/New England/the Midwest. It's actually news to me that those areas get spring flowers a month later than us and can actually get prolonged, sustained snow and cold this late when in most of Europe now it would be a 1-2 day affair, but it makes more sense when I consider people living there technically consider anything up to March 21st winter when most of us wouldn't. I suppose a large amount of the US doesn't conform to the idea of four three-month seasons as whoever named them would recognise them. I imagine if it were up to the people in somewhere like New Orleans or LA to define the seasons they'd come up with something completely different.
As far as the weather is concerned, it's 17C here even in one of the cooler parts of the city, though the skies have gone hazy. Still the warmest day of the year so far, again. There are even small cracks forming in the soil as if it was summer, it's been that dry - I'm more used to grass still being muddy at this time of year.
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If it's any consolation, today is 61F and sunny here, not there yet but probably the hottest day of the year so far for the third day in a row
